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Squeezing the World's Vulnerable Peoples

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Posted By: Mercedes44, 11/10/2023 4:31:14 PM

The population of Israel is about 10 million. This represents about half of the world's Jewish people. The founding idea of modern Israel was to offer a sanctuary for Jews in their biblical home in the Middle East, in the aftermath of Nazi Germany's mass murder of 6 million Jews. Yet currently, 78 years after the Holocaust, anti-Israel protestors throughout the Middle East, the great cities of the Western world, and iconic American universities chant death threats and "Palestine will be free from the river to the sea." Their signature slogan is shorthand for the erasure of the Jewish state and everyone in it.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Skinnydip 11/10/2023 5:16:21 PM (No. 1595982)
I’m currently in Europe, and CNN International (ugh!) is running ads for Azerbaijan “tourism”, of all things.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: smokincol 11/10/2023 9:41:42 PM (No. 1596074)
I don't get it!! in 1948 the United Nations gave statehood to Israel to become an entity unto itself but in 2023, the United Nations will not support or defend the nation they created but will give credence and validation to the corrupt and barbaric forces of Islam hiding out, in open sight, in all of the Arab nations ready to pounce on Israel at the first sign of nation advancement of the created State of Israel this is lunacy of a degree unheard of in so called modern societies
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